Sentences with phrase «unrelated children»

While adoption of unrelated children (outside of a traditional adoption agency process) is somewhat less common, it is still fairly regularly seen in the local courts.

A nanny share is an option where one nanny provides care for two or more unrelated children in one of the family's homes.

Stephen W. Scherer, Ph.D., of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and colleagues performed chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) and whole - exome sequencing (WES) in a group of 258 unrelated children with ASD to determine the molecular diagnostic yield (the percentage of subjects with a genetic alteration [mutation] that may contribute to the features of autism spectrum disorder) of these tests.

Recently, two unrelated children ages 2 and 4, living in Greenville, N.C., were found to have extremely high levels of lead in their blood.

Juan Jimenez - Jaimez and colleagues conduct a study to describe the clinical manifestations of the Asn98Ser mutation in CALM2 in two unrelated children in southern Spain with apparently unexplained cardiac arrest / death.

But this study was considered groundbreaking because it compared siblings rather than unrelated children, where demographic differences and whether a pregnant woman smokes or drinks can bias studies in favor of breast - feeding, said Cynthia Colen, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State University and the lead author of the study.

These are unrelated children of the same age — most often both are adopted — who are being brought up together.

[28] For example, the authors point out that stepparenting is a self - selective process, and that when all else is equal, men who bond with unrelated children are more likely to become stepfathers, a factor that is likely to be a confounding variable in efforts to study the Cinderella effect.

However, it is possible to approve a foster carer for more than three children provided that the fostering panel and agency decision maker are satisfied that the foster carer can meet the needs of more than three unrelated children, although the placement of more than 3 unrelated children will require an exemption.

A: An exemption is always required when more than 3 unrelated children are being placed in one household.

While it typically occurs due to pregnancy and childbirth, it may also occur between a woman and an unrelated child, such as in adoption.